Seemingly slicker, smarter and cooler, XCOM 2 seems to be pressing all the right buttons, says RPG Site.
Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon hasn't seen mass layoffs like this in his whole 25-year career.
Alot’s changed in 25 years. We have games with $300 mill budgets, people not interested in games other than Fortnite and Minecraft, the older generation of gamers giving up the hobby or dying off, a period of super bad inflation where the industry decided to hike up prices on games, Gamepass harming game sales, GaaS games being pushed left and right with obnoxious monetization and worse looking/playing (Suicide Squad vs Arkham Knight).
The industry is just shite right now. Games ain’t selling, games cost massive amounts, businesses can’t bleed money and this is what happens. Part of it is on them and part of it is on consumers not buying.
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Damn the only one I’ve played so far is Miles Morales, although I do own Control and Rift Apart.
Odd list. Where is Horizon Forbidden West? Ghost of Tsushima? Demon’s Souls? Returnal? And fun indie games like Superliminal? Where’s “A Plage Tale Requiem” and “Evil West”, the current PS+ Essential offerings?
Like seriously? Those are games Extra Tier can get - so not worth upgrading to Premium
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This should have been brought to consoles. They basically dissed the console players. I almost ready to say screw you guys and Xcom 2 .... but I believe it will come to consoles eventually.
@Drithe
It may or may not come to console in the future but for now it's a PC exclusive so get used to it.
Either buy it on PC or start begging for a console release.
If XCOM was successful on consoles it would have been coming to them as well as PC but I guess you didn't support the developers enough to warrant a sequel.
I, for one, am THRILLED it has a PC-first (and possibly only) support. That makes them not "consider" mouse and keyboard, but to make the game for it. It makes boxes and menus look different. (Think SkyUI and also look at console-UI on Dragon Age Inquisition and The Witcher 3).
But even more important is the mods. It will be amazing to stretch this game out like Civilization V. I look forward to playing XCOM 2 as much as Civ V and more than XCOM. Those are my two favorite strategy games, along with Fire Emblem.
Less important is the graphics, but it is a real thing that making a AAA game FOR the PC allows them to just crank everything up to 11, and if your rig is capable, then you can do eeet!